"Labour has made the case for a Social Responsibility Levy to claw back the windfall supermarkets could make from minimum unit pricing".

For the North East a five-year delay could mean 75 additional North East lives lost, 11,000 alcohol related crimes and 4,600 hospital admissions which otherwise could have been avoided, costing the region nearly £66m.

"Minimum unit pricing will save lives, cut crime and benefit the public finances". "Half of the crimes committed in Scotland are related to alcohol consumption".

"It's no secret that Scotland has a troubled relationship with alcohol", she said.

PC Claire McNaney believes those most at risk will benefit from the minimum price of a unit being introduced here.

The legislation has been criticised by small government campaigners who say that it will only serve as a levy on the poor and will not in itself solve Scotland's alcoholism problems.

It's now illegal to sell liquor for less than 50 pence per unit.

"It is vital therefore that the impact of on businesses and on consumers of the MUP experiment in Scotland is rigorously and objectively monitored and evaluated over time".

In terms of introducing a similar move in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, Shirley Cramer CBE, chief executive of The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH), said: "When it comes to reducing alcohol harm, minimum unit pricing is one of the most potent tools we have at our disposal, with numerous studies and global evidence suggesting it can significantly reduce deaths and other health harms".

He said: We think there is enough evidence for the Government to bring it in in England, it's being brought in in Wales, we know that the plan's afoot in Northern Ireland and it's already happening as we know in Scotland, so England looks like an outlier.

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